Conservation

This series of blog posts highlights the different spaces across the Harvard campus where Preservation Services staff work to preserve and conserve library materials. In 2000 the building that houses Harvard Divinity School Library underwent a major...

An example of materials from the Whipple Miscellany including gelatin silver and chromogenic prints before treatment and rehousing. by Tess Hamilton, Photograph Conservation Intern, Weissman Preservation Center As we continue to celebrate Preservation...

Lisa treating a book in the conservation lab. This series of blog posts highlights the different spaces across the Harvard campus where Preservation Services staff work to preserve and conserve library materials. A conservation lab was established at...

This series of blog posts highlights the different spaces across the Harvard campus where Preservation Services staff work to preserve and conserve library materials. Terri Messina is the Conservation Technician in the Harvard Law School Library’s...

This series of blog posts highlights the different spaces across the Harvard campus where Preservation Services staff work to preserve and conserve library materials. Preservation Services has had a presence at the Schlesinger Library for over 20 years...

This series of blog posts highlights the different spaces across the Harvard campus where Preservation Services staff work to preserve and conserve library materials. The Frances Loeb Library Conservation Lab at the Graduate School of Design was founded...

By Amanda Hegarty, Conservator for Special Collections, Weissman Preservation Center March 2022 The group of conservators, conservation technicians and conservation interns watching Katherine Beaty demonstrate the overband tackets. From November to...

by Christopher Sokolowski, Conservator for Special Collections, Weissman Preservation Center C4C turns ten! 2021 brought the tenth edition of Caring for Collections: recent projects across Harvard , to a n audience of peers from every corner of the campus...

by Rachel Bissonnette, Graduate Book Conservation Intern, Weissman Preservation Center The illustrated sequence in the 聚星圖 (Chʻwisŏng-to, A Narrative Figure Paintings about the Virtuous Gathering of and Xun Family) (c. 1677) album depicts the meeting of...